2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Five Wives
Joan Thomas
2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Red Word
Sarah Henstra
2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
Joel Thomas Hynes
2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien
2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
Guy Vanderhaeghe
2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Back of the Turtle
Thomas King
2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Purchase
Linda Spalding
2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Cool Water
Dianne Warren
2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Mistress of Nothing
Kate Pullinger
2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Origin of Species
Nino Ricci
2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje
2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Law of Dreams
Peter Behrens
2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
A Perfect Night to Go to China
David Gilmour
2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
A Complicated Kindness
Miriam Toews
2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Elle
Douglas Glover
2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
A Song for Nettie Johnson
Gloria Sawai
2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Clara Callan
Richard B. Wright
2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Anil’s Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Elizabeth and After
Matt Cohen
1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Forms of Devotion
Diane Schoemperlen
1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Underpainter
Jane Urquhart
1996 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Englishman’s Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe
1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Roaring Girl
Greg Hollingshead
1994 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
A Discovery of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe
1993 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
1992 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
1991 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry
1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Lives of the Saints
Nino Ricci
1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Whale Music
Paul Quarrington
1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Nights Below Station Street
David Adams Richards
1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
A Dream Like Mine
M.T. Kelly
1986 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Progress of Love
Alice Munro
1985 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Engineer of Human Souls
Josef Skvorecky
1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Shakespeare’s Dog
Leon Rooke
1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Man Descending
Guy Vanderhaeghe
1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories
Mavis Gallant
1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Burning Water
George Bowering
1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
Jack Hodgins
1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alice Munro
1977 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Wars
Timothy Findley
1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Bear
Marian Engel
1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Great Victorian Collection
Brian Moore
1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Diviners
Margaret Laurence
1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Temptations of Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
1972 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Manticore
Robertson Davies
1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
St. Urbain’s Horseman
Mordecai Richler
1970 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The New Ancestors
Dave Godfrey
1969 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Studhorse Man
Robert Kroetsch
1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Cocksure
Mordecai Richler
1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
A Jest of God
Margaret Laurence
1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Deserter
Douglas LePan
1963 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Hugh Garner’s Best Stories
Hugh Garner
1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place
Malcolm Lowry
1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Brian Moore
1959 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Watch that Ends the Night
Hugh MacLennan
1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Execution
Colin McDougall
1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Street of Riches (translation)
Gabrielle Roy
1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Sacrifice
Adele Wiseman
1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Sixth of June
Lionel Shapiro
1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Fall of a Titan
Igor Gouzenko
1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Digby
David Walker
1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Pillar
David Walker
1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Loved and the Lost
Morley Callaghan
1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Outlander (translation)
Germaine Guèvremont
1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Mr. Ames Against Time
Philip Child
1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Precipice
Hugh MacLennan
1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Tin Flute (translation)
Gabrielle Roy
1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Continental Revue
Winifred Bambrick
1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Two Solitudes
Hugh MacLennan
1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Earth and High Heaven
Gwethalyn Graham
1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek
Thomas H. Raddall
1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Little Man
G. Herbert Sallans
1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Three Came to Ville Marie
Alan Sullivan
1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Thirty Acres (translation)
Ringuet (pseud.)
1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Champlain Road
Franklin D. McDowell
1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
Swiss Sonata
Gwethalyn Graham
1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction
The Dark Weaver
Laura G. Salverson
1936 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction